Well, this is it.

[camwyn]

Tomorrow I come into the headquarters, but then it's outprocessing time- getting signatures, getting examinations, etc.- and then I head for... not home. Texas. Gotta fly out of Houston 'cos of expensive change fees. My boss on this job and I will be sharing a car for the five hour ride back, and then I'll be checking into a hotel room in Houston- at the Airport Mariott, where they check to make sure people have left their rooms entirely when they check out. Which is good. And then on Tuesday I fly out of Houston at 10:40 AM local time and arrive in Newark at around 5:30 PM Eastern time. I will probably take a taxi home; the car services are weirdly expensive.

I am currently suffering from the horrible suspicion that my apartment has been broken into and my few things of value (the computer, TV, bike, and DVD player) taken. At this point I am not entirely sure I care about this so long as my bed is there and I still have at least one suit in the closet, since we're back to business wear at the office now that summer's over. I am glad of the airport Marriott stay because I will be sleeping in a bed again.

I am also going to have to find someone to be in my apartment on the 15th. My landlady's mortgage company is doing inspections that day and I really can't ask the boss to let me stay home until they show up, all things considered.

But at least I will be going home, and at least my job will still be there, and at least a weekend is coming. I may check into a hotel this weekend for one night just to sleep in a bed that is nowhere near anyone else and where I do not have to take care of a damned thing beyond the most basic level of manners. Or not, you never know.

We'll see. Tomorrow I start the long road home.

Comments

apartment sitting

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

G might be available on the 15th. Is your place easy to get to w/o car, bike, etc?

Re: apartment sitting

[camwyn]

If he can get on the PATH train to Journal Square, I'm the stop before Journal Square. It's three blocks from there- more like two and a half.

Re: apartment sitting

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

G's cold came back, so at this point we don't know if he'll be fine & dandy and able to help on Thursday or too exhausted to leave our apartment.

Re: apartment sitting

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

Update: G's too sick for a trip to NJ tomorrow. Sorry. :(

Re: apartment sitting

[camwyn]

Well, that happens. I called the landlady earlier and told her secretary that I wasn't going to be able to have anyone in; they may call me tomorrow and get permission for entering the apartment over the phone when they get here.

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

What makes you labor under the above suspicion re: jacked apt?

[camwyn]

Natural paranoia, plus an inability to remember whether I hooked up the answering machine or not before I left- since calling my home number only gets me Verizon Voice Mail, I don't know if the phone is actually there or not. It might just be that I forgot to plug in the answering machine, or someone might've taken it, etc. etc. etc.

Basically, paranoia really.

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well, as long as that's clear. I often get the "did I turn the oven off" bugaboo, usually long after I'm, say, on a plane to New Mexico or something. So that's all understandable.

[drharper.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Can't wait to have you back, love. Next time, hire a Klingon to housesit. That should solve all your worries about burglers (though give you more about property damage if he finds enough bloodwine). ;)